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One school district is struggling under the weight of recent budget cuts and questions about potential mismanagement. Then it put out a new school planner for its students that was filled with errors ranging from misidentifying planets, creating a Periodic Table of nonsense and renaming of states on the U.S. map to "Sorth Cuanto", "Alatome" and "Venecky" (South Carolina, Alabama and Kentucky, respectively). (Douglas Sacha / Getty Images)

Welcome to Venecky?

CK Smith

A Kentucky school's botched student planner is ridiculous — but it's hardly the troubled district's biggest problem

Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette spoke with Katie Miller, conservative podcaster and wife of Senior Trump Adviser Stephen Miller, as part of a series of behind-the-scenes conversations from the Trump Cabinet. (Nathan Howard-Pool / Getty Images)

Marco Rubio opts for Pop-Tarts over MAHA

CK Smith

Secretary of state dishes on RFK Jr.'s sauerkraut, Hegseth's 'arrogant' cat and his own disastrous keto experiment

Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner in "One Night Only" (Nicole Rivelli / Universal Pictures)

The summer of rom-com sex talk

Coleman Spilde

Three new films find room for intimacy in a slide toward fascism

The White House is awaiting an override from the Supreme Court to continue construction on the now infamous ballroom / "military complex" project. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Trump begs SCOTUS for his ballroom

CK Smith

The president lashes out at “treasonists” after lower courts blocked construction on his $400 million project

Five fruity cocktails (Getty Images/SimpleImages)

How Gen Z really drinks

Francesca Giangiulio

Behind the sober-generation stereotype is careful spending and new ways to go out

According to Media Matters, Fox News has recently devoted over 13 hours of air time to trans players in the WNBA. But none exist. (Melina Pizano/Getty Images)

Fox's WNBA hate is good press

Sophia Tesfaye

While the network talks about Caitlin Clark and the trans panic, the league's popularity is soaring

Special elections across the country continue to show strong turnout for Democratic candidate, leaving many concerned for the 2026 midterms. (Allen J. Schaben / Getty Images)

DOJ leaders ignored internal concerns

Peter Elkind, Andy Mannix, Ken B. Morales, Doug Bock Clark, Jen Fifield - ProPublica

The Trump admin has launched a series of unprecedented initiatives to find and prosecute voting by noncitizens

Phoebe Bridgers (Olof Grind/Dead Oceans)

Phoebe Bridgers has lots of feelings

Kelly McClure

On "Lost Weekend," Phoebe Bridgers embraces the pain and joy of simply being alive

Luigi Mangione appears for his arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court on December 23, 2024 in New York City. (Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images)

Mangione pleads guilty to killing CEO

Troy Farah

“I shot Mr. Thompson, and he died,” the 28-year-old said

Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler in "Lanterns." (John Johnson/HBO Max)

“Lanterns” questions what makes a hero

Melanie McFarland

The DCU's new drama uses Hal Jordan and John Stewart's tense team-up to take a swing at America's meritocracy myth

Magnifying glass over a shopping cart (porocorex / Getty Images)

We're all food safety inspectors now

Ashlie D. Stevens

MAHA wants Americans to scrutinize their food. Taylor Farms recalls show how hard that has become

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing on July 23, 2026. (Mehmet Eser / Anadolu via Getty Images)

The worst press secretary I've ever seen

Brian Karem

Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House. She won't be missed by the media she mocked and despised

Flock Safety cameras have many Americans seeing red. (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / The Washington Post / SOPA Images)

The Flock uprising is just the beginning

Amanda Marcotte

People are sick of tech billionaires trying to control our lives

Political strategist James Carville was one of the architects of Bill Clinton's Third Way approach to politics (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SCAD)

Time for James Carville to shut up

Alex Galbraith

The strategist and other Third Way advocates think they have the answers for Trump. But they got us into this mess

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a press conference at the Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue on July 22, 2026 in Austin, Texas. The discussion comes as data centers have emerged as a major political issue in Texas, with Gov. Greg Abbott calling for stronger oversight of their expansion. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

How Paxton, Talarico differ on God

Ellie Ashby - The Texas Tribune

Campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Paxton says he was “delivered by God” to protect Texas from leftists

(L-R) Kaia Gerber, Jenna Ortega, Ariana Grande (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Frazer Harrison / WireImage / Stephanie Augello / Dia Dipasupil)

Our body-positive era has some flaws

Candice Frederick

Scrutiny over Ariana Grande, Kaia Gerber and Jenna Ortega’s bodies exposes how little we’ve learned

Inarticulate in interviews and weak on the stump, Francesca Hong's defeat in the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary is a gift in disguise to progressives (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Hong's loss proves AOC right

Jason Kyle Howard

Her defeat in the state’s gubernatorial primary shows why the left needs happy warriors like AOC and Mamdani

President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The gospel of science denial

Heather Digby Parton

Donald Trump and RFK Jr.'s anti-vax agenda has deep roots in fundamentalist faith and Big Business

(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Pixelimage)

MAGA's burrito meltdown

Sophia Tesfaye

A $20 meal became a right-wing media feud, exposing a party's broken promises

Kalshi logo. (Photo by Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Prediction markets place election odds

Carrie Levine - Votebeat

Add betting markets to the list of things election officials are worried about this year

Karoline Leavitt speaks to Fox News on November 24, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Leavitt is leaving the Trump admin

Troy Farah

The number of women left in the Trump admin is shrinking

Antonio Banderas and Dominic Sessa in "Tony" (Seacia Pavao/A24)

Anthony Bourdain would have hated "Tony"

Coleman Spilde

Matt Johnson's uninspired "Tony" confines Bourdain to the public's imagination. It sorely lacks Bourdain's depth

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Miami International Airport to attend the America Business Forum on November 05, 2025 in Miami, Florida. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump’s catering-truck farce

Ashlie D. Stevens

Trump usually directs the food spectacle. The reported catering-truck escape briefly made him part of the scenery

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (R) (I-VT) walks toward the Senate Chambers on March 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Bernie's AI warnings are being ignored

Alex Galbraith

Like Helaena Targaryen from "House of the Dragon," the Vermont senator is sounding an alarm that won't be heard

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